The optimistic go-getters are struck with the reality of an economically rationalised employment market in which sparkly young people with big ideas and truckloads of self-confidence are nowhere near as valuable as their parents and teachers led them to believe.
Unpaid overtime, non-existent incentive payments, hostility towards employees who take sick or annual leave, unsafe work practices, extended trial periods and lack of training are among the complaints I hear from gen Yers having their first workplace experiences. Such complaints will increase under the industrial relations reforms, and each person will be expected to have the know-how, confidence and experience to negotiate his or her conditions.
Well said. Our company is always boasting "We have unlimited sick leave days. No limits at all!". But watch them whinge at me if I take a few days off over Winter when I have the flu and am so sick and tired and feel like shit. "What’s the matter? Don’t you like your job? Don’t you like the manager? What’s wrong? Why do you take so many days off? We have a gauge which tells us whom has the most days off under any circumstances and you are high on that list". Err… I HAVE THE FLU!!! ffs.
